Greetings is as an Old English byname and was listed in Saxon times as AEdelwold des Greta c. 900. The same source listed AEdelmaeres Greatan in 1017.
Greetings is thought to have been derived from the Old English word "great", or less commonly from Greta(f), probably short for Margaret. [1]
Greet is a chapelry, in the parish and union of Winchcomb, Lower division of the hundred of Kiftsgate, in Gloucestershire and a parish, in the union of Tenbury, hundred of Overs in Shropshire. [2]
This web page shows only a small excerpt of our Greetings research. Another 83 words (6 lines of text) covering the years 1455, 1487, 1675, 1675, 1666 and 1667 are included under the topic Early Greetings History in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.
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Greetings Spelling Variations
Spelling variations of this family name include: Greet, Grete, Greetan, Greeton, Greep, Greeter and others.
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Early Notables of the Greetings family (pre 1700)
Distinguished members of the family include Thomas Greeting (fl. 1675), English musician who published in 1675 'The Pleasant Companion, or new Lessons and Instructions for the Flagelet.' Pepys engaged him to teach his... Another 33 words (2 lines of text) are included under the topic Early Greetings Notables in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.
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Migration of the Greetings family
Some of the first settlers of this family name or some of its variants were: the name represented in many forms and recorded from the mid 17th century in the great migration from Europe. Migrants settled in the eastern seaboard from Newfoundland, to Maine, to Virginia, the Carolinas, and to the islands..
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